Ifs Quote by James Galvin

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

— Cassandra Clare

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

— Richard Hugo

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

— Stephane Mallarme

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

— Petra Haden